News Careers at DCA Contact DCA
DCA Home Page About DCA Products Services Technical Support Clients and Case Studies
 
   
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

 

 

 
 

WHAT'S NEW

 

  
2010 News
2009 News
2008 News
2007 News
 
July 2010 tcm 7 takes off with 3 new customers

The first week of July was a busy one with three customers completing major implementations.

Alzheimer's Australia went live with their Australia-wide implementation, completing a six month project to migrate all states and territories from the previous system onto a singletcm 7 database using the new jurisdictions feature to manage the specific requirements of each state.

Ballarat Community Health went live with the new Community and Womens Health and Alcohol and Drug modules so thattcm 7 is now used for all key community programs provided by the service.

Merri Community Health completed their upgrade from Release 6 and implementation of the program management module within their brokerage and care respite services.

Congratulations to these organisations for successfully managing the transition to tcm 7.

We are pleased to welcome a number of new organisations to thetcm 7 user community and look forward to implementing with them in the next few months.

July 2010 DCA awarded new contract to supply AHPRA with mail house and database services

DCA have been selected by AHPRA through a Request For Quotation (RFQ) process to provide further mail house and database services into 2010 and 2011.

DCA's successful response was based on its competitive cost, experience and the high quality of service provided to date when performing the current data migration services for AHPRA in 2010.

DCA management would like to thank all involved in the current migration project and the upcoming AHPRA mailings.
May 2010 City of Greater Dandenong in Victoria now live with PinForce City Wide

DCA are pleased to announce that the City of Greater Dandenong in Victoria is now live with PinForce City Wide.

PinForce City Wide is a new tablet based application to automate the complex process of Health Premises Inspections, Food Premises Inspections, Pool Inspections and other inspection and compliance types. This is in addition to the compliance notice module available within PinForce Mobile. PinForce City Wide is an add-on to the existing PinForce infrastructure thus leveraging your existing investment in the technology.

Click here for more details in the Press Release.
May 2010 DCA achieves certification in e-Health Secure Message Delivery as both a sender and a receiver

The IHE Australia Secure Messaging Connectathon held in April 2010 showed that DCA is one of only 3 vendors to achieve certification to the Australian Technical Specification: ATS 5822:2010 – eHealth Secure Message Delivery as both a sender and a receiver.

Testing was performed by the Australian Healthcare Messaging Laboratory (AHML) on behalf of IHE.

Click here to view the results of the testing.

The IHE Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's only large-scale interoperability testing event where systems exchange information with complementary systems from multiple vendors.
May 2010 DCA invests in e-Health

DCA has entered into an agreement to acquire Ballarat based Argus Connect, leaders in secure document exchange between GPs, specialists, allied health practices and health services.

In a separate arrangement, DCA is in the process of taking responsibility for the Connectingcare service directory and e-referral solution used by 19 Victorian primary care partnerships (PCPs).
April 2010 Charles Sturt University commissions DCA to review and deliver consolidated view of Alumni/Office of Corporate Affairs data

Charles Sturt University has a strategic vision for 2007-2011 - underpinned by vital elements including engagement through responsiveness, partnerships and inclusiveness.

As such, CSU has undertaken to achieve industry best-of-breed approach in regards to it's Alumni / Office of Corporate Affairs data repositories. This will allow CSU to achieve a high level of communication integrity and support a smooth transition to their new CRM system. In turn, this will form the foundation for the successful delivery of CSU's strategic vision for 2007-2011.

DCA is very pleased to be commissioned, to review and deliver a consolidated view of CSU's Alumni / Office of Corporate Affairs data repositories.
January 2010 PinForce Images Online goes live at Pittwater City Council

DCA is pleased to announce that Pittwater City Council has gone live on the Council's website with the innovative PinForce Images Online module that allows members of the public to check the veracity of parking tickets.

Click here for more details in the Press Release.
January 2010 Alzheimer's Australia contract DCA to implement tcm7 as a national database

A new national information system to support the delivery of care to people suffering from dementia will be implemented in all states and terrtories during 2010. DCA been contracted by Alzheimer's Australia to implement tcm 7 as a national database, including migration of data from the existing application.

"What we have embarked upon will change the client experience, deliver more client time and provide a foundation for future national collaboration and unity", said Roger Parenzee, project manager for the Alzheimer's Australia project.

The new application will support service specific dementia assessment, management of individual and group services, and incorporate a new national dementia reporting system.
January 2010 DCA engaged to provide data migration services for AHPRA

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is the new Federal Government department which from 1st July 2010 will administer the registration and accreditation of health practitioners in Australia.

DCA has been engaged to provide the data migration services to take the information of the initial 10 professions and to cleanse, merge, deduplicate, and upload the data into the new AHPRA registration management system.

The 10 professions which will initially be moved to the new AHPRA system are: medical practitioners; nurses and midwives; pharmacists; physiotherapists; podiatrists; psychologists; osteopaths; chiropractors; optometrists; and dentists. The data migration process started in November 2009 and will be completed by 30 June 2010.